Overproduced treacle. What's a band that used to be about surgical tools and corpses doing hacking and growling about "lost love," anyway? Nothing about this comes together or works conceptually. Stupid album.

An exceedingly good slab of melodeath that does what so much in the genre fails to do-properly integrate the melodic side into their music and still maintain a crushingly heavy sound. This stands out to me as one of the best the genre has ever, or probably will ever, produce.

I would say being one of the biggest influences on an entire genre and subgenres springing from it earns you a 5. Everywhere you look, you can hear the spirit of this bands music influencing and inspiring melodic death metal bands, and any genre that melodic death has touched.

Heartwork has a reputation of being one of the greatest melodic death metal albums of all time. True or not, all I can say is that I can't agree with that reputation. Heartwork actually has a unique sound and it really stands out compared to many other melodic death metal albums but I can't enjoy this album. The only tracks that melt my face are Arbeit Macht Fleisch, Heartwork and Death Certificate. Particularly Death Certificate, I have never encountered such awesome riff work before, a truly amazing track. The rest of the tracks do not impress me much, I don't want to say this but I think that Heartwork is quite bland and boring. It is not an utterly terrible album but it is not as utterly great either.

Metal legends Carcass were arguably at the top of their game when Heartwork was released. Almost every aspect of the album is flawless, and is a major step up from Carcass' previous work, which was none too shabby either. The guitars are much more melodic than they were on previous releases, but still aggressive and technical. The vocals are very good as well, they are consistant throughout the entire album, but may become a but monotonous at point. They do not however, drag the album down at all, so it's no really a problem. The drumming is a nice blend of simple 4/4 beats and fast intricate beats with nice footwork. Carcass' Heartwork may very well be their best album, and if not it is certainly their most mature. Very well done, almost a definite to please any metal fan.

Wake up and smell a classic! 1993. Carcass unleashed a record exploding with great riffs and leads and an memorable caracteristic vocal delivery by Walker. Sheer brutality, speed and melody is all delivered here wrapped under crushing harmonized guitar. And oh wait, the production is just godlike.

An amazing slab of melodeath that never fails to amaze me with its interweaving guitar melodies that work so well among the brutality on display in the riffs and the vocal performance is arguably the best in melodeath and shows rubbish melodeath bands like Arch Enemy how the genre should be handled. This is a fantastic release that everyone into extreme metal should check out.

Can someone say this was pioneering and history-making? Fuck yeah!! Can someone say it's good? Fuck yeah!! Can someone say it's the best fuckin' album out there and everybody should bow down to it? Fuck no!! The album is great. However, the album is a great prototype for melodic death metal, not necessarily a classic, or Carcass's best work.